The Delta State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has taken his unscrupulous dance of shame by taking advantage of old men and women on whom he is now playing pranks. Some days ago, Omo-Agege cajoled and coerced some elders who didn’t know why they were being called out from the comfort of their homes and put them in a hall and called the encounter a town hall meeting. The shocked senior citizens were surprised that they were to be spoken to by a character whose dubious antecedents they know very well. Many of them walked out of the hall, while a few stayed back to hear him. As those who staged a walk out were leaving a frantic Omo-Agege was heard calling them “please stay please stay, I will give you all something.” This was one insult too many to the senior citizens who hissed and walked away. This has been the pattern for Omo-Agege as he desperately seeks to realize his unholy ambition to destroy Delta State. Omo-Agege and the APC he represents mean no good for Nigeria as they thrive on lies, misinformation and deceit. What the APC has done to Nigeria since 2015 must not be repeated. The APC stole power through lies and it is leaving Nigeria in ruins.
Those who have been observing Omo-Agege since he began his unholy campaigns will notice the pattern of lies, misinformation and pure deceit that has ruled his mind and mouth. The number of lies he has so far told run into hundreds and may be uncountable. From telling lies to discredit Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and Rt, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Omo-Agege tells at least ten lies in each campaign ground. The same he has been repeating since he began his town hall meetings. When others are talking about their manifesto and vision for Delta State, Omo-Agege is busy uttering what amounts to hate speech simply because his manifesto is empty. He now comes across as a man without scruples and badly discredited by his own utterances. The truth is that the more lies Omo-Agege tells in his attempt to discredit Okowa and Oborevwori, the more he discredits himself. For everyone finger he points at either Okowa or Oborevwori, his other five fingers are pointing at him as : a mace thief, a fraud and forgery convict, an identity thief, a project hijacker, a looter, a lie merchant, a groveling slave to Aso Rock cabal, a suit wearing thug and more.
What Omo-Agege told the retirees was to as usual abuse Governor Okowa and promised to pay them their pensions. He said he will clear the pension in six months. We need to ask a question here. Is Delta State actually deficit in pensions? Delta State is not deficit in pensions in real terms. Pension takes time and process to handle to avoid errors and complications. This is the situation with some retirees in Delta State. The State is the most pension-friendly state in Nigeria. Of all Omo-Agege’s APC states in Nigeria, only two are paying salaries regularly how much more pensions. Yet, Omo-Agege left the log in his eyes to talk about delayed pensions in Delta State. Many retirees saw through Omo-Agege’s lies and that was why they told him to count them out of his deceit and schemes. Local government retirees literally booed him and told him to take his tricks elsewhere.
Omo-Agege who is talking about pensions is stealing from the cookie jar of surveillance money for pipeline protection. For three months now, Omo-Agege has seized the money meant to pay Urhobo, Ndokwa and Isoko youths in the pipeline surveillance contract to stop crude oil theft. The money is meant for struggling youths who have sacrificed so much to protect the nation’s commonwealth, but Omo-Agege has chosen to steal their money, the sweat of their labour and the risk they subjected themselves to in the interest of Nigeria. Omo-Agege saw the surveillance money as coming handy for vote buying having lost out in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and having been compelled to build the Orogun polytechnic or face the Peter Nwoboshi treatment. So, he is relying on the surveillance money to prosecute his governorship ambition. How laughable is it now for somebody who stole money meant for struggling and sacrificial youths to be promising to pay pensions to old people? How believable are his pronouncements? This is the character of the man who wants to be governor. Deltans must reject him. Delta State doesn’t need a character like Omo-Agege who will be a state captor.
The youths must also insist that he should release their money. We are aware that he is making frantic efforts to buy some of the youth leaders. But Delta State is not for such a man who will steal from the youths and lie to the old. As Omo-Agege holds more town hall meetings people will hear more lies and fake promises. But each lie he tells and each fake promise he makes takes him further away from government house. We don’t such a man as our governor.
Friday Ewiwilem writes from Asaba.
